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Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Fox News writing about the death of journalism is like Lee Harvey Oswald talking about the importance of the presidency. That (and conspiracy theories) aside, the link above is to a Fox story showing their side of the argument.

Apple, meanwhile, is gearing up for rapid expansion in it's iTunes franchise and in new ventures. Apple is in construction on a massive server farm here in the US and another in China. The "farms" or super cloud storage facilities, are geared to deliver music, video, film, books, aps, and games for sale, rent and in freeware.

At this month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, in addition to 3D-TV, headlines were made in the areas of e-readers or e-books, tablet PC's and touch screen "everything." This while Apple officially refused comment on what products it may reveal at Mac World in late January and early February. Other products may include a new generation of iphones, laptops and a home "supercomputer" iMac.

Knowledge

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge lives."

-James Madison to W.T. Barry,

August 1822

“Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power and to withhold from them information, without which power is abused. A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both”

-James Madison

“Democracy can be an effective form of government only to the extent that the public (that rules in theory) is well-informed about national and international events and can think independently and critically about those events. If the vast majority of citizens do not recognize bias…if they cannot detect ideology, slant, and spin; if they cannot recognize propaganda…they cannot reasonably determine what messages have to be supplemented, counter balanced, or thrown out entirely. “

Do not believe short phases, e-mail slogans or even the ethos of those you look up to. It is best to always seek out opposing views, read opposing reports and ask yourself to keep an open mind on any issue that may impact yourself, your community, your nation or your world.

Too many decisions are made based on hear say or tightly held bias beliefs that may blind the citizen to the facts they need to uncover to make key decisions in any democracy.

Understand your own prejudice, bias and stereotypes, those of your audience and of whomever you are seeking for information. All sources have bias, regardless of how they may present themselves. The very process of selecting which information to show, say, write or present involves making decisions that involve bias, often unintended.

I encourage you to always seek out views that do not fit in with your own and give them a fair hearing. In the end your decision, your thoughts and your actions are still your own.

National Public Radio reports that Google's threat to leave China makes solid business sense. Cyber attacks on Google are now seen as cyber-theft, with the goal to backward engineer Google's operating systems, internal security and services. This could lead to ways to censor Google involuntarily and to the construction of competing services more in line with the goals, definitions and needs of the Communist government of mainland China (The People's Republic of China). As reported previously on this blog, Google has reason to believe that the Chinese government may be behind the attacks, and if not, they are turning the other way instead of seeking out and prosecuting whomever is doning the cyberwarfare on Google. Marketplace, from American Public Radio, reports that the reality tht Google is willing to turn its back on and walk away from the most potentially lucrative future market in the world speaks volumes about how deep the attacks, censorship and damage done may already have gone.

Google may also fear for their international reputation at protecting data gathered from users and user habits from commercial resale and abuse. Is it possible the Chinese responsible have found a way to break Google's encryptions and protection fire walls?

This past year it was revealed that Chinese based hackers had compromised America's electric power infastructure, used office computers to spy on corporate executives, hacked into the Pentagon, forced the White House home site to be taken down temporarily and may be behind systematic slowing of internet services world wide.

The Pentagon revealed that a long secrete office of cyberwarfare exists and appointed high level leadership, adding cyber attacks as a potential theater of terrorism or war.

Yet we invest in China, allow China to invest in the US and continue to allow US manufacturing to relocate to mainland China.

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About Me

Actor, Casting Director, Director, Broadcaster, Writer, Singer, Artistic
Director, Dramatur, Producer, Professor, Coach, Husband, Grandfather, Marketing
Professional and life long student Art Lynch joined the staff of John Robert
Powers in 1999. Lynch is also an adjunct professor at the Community College of
Southern Nevada, the Morning Edition Weekend Host for Nevada Public Radio and
one of 67 individuals who represent 126,000 actors as a member of the Board of
Directors of the Screen Actors Guild. He is the past president of the Nevada
Branch of the Screen Actors Guild and of the Professional Audio/Visual Communications
Association. A resident of Nevada since 1984, Lynch has an MA in Communications
from UNLV and a BA in Theater, Speech and Mass Communications from the
University of Illinois, Chicago. He is currently pursuing post-graduate studies
in theater, education and the entertainment industry. Art Lynch studied and
practiced the craft of acting in Chicago and California before settling in
Nevada. With his wife Laura, Art owned and operated a successful marketing
company with national clientele. Art was personally responsible for casting and
directing over 1,000 commercials and industrials, as well as assisting on film
and television projects in many ways. His career also includes earning awards
as a wire service, magazine and broadcast journalist. He is most proud,
however, of his daughters. Ann is a PhD in neuroscience and Beth is the proud
mother of his grandchildren, Evan and Elijah.

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